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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Jenna Bush: I may not support McCain
Post Date: 2008-05-02 21:39:26 by robin
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Jenna Bush: I may not support McCain POSTED April 24, 5:02 AM In Republican circles, this could constitute a form of sacrilege.Speaking on Larry King Live last night, first daughter Jenna Bush, who appeared alongside first lady Laura Bush, confessed that she's not sure if she'll vote for the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Sen. John McCain, and even left open the possibility that she'd support either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.KING: Do you have a favorite between the two, the two Democrats? LAURA BUSH: My favorite is the Republican. KING (pointing to Jenna): Yours too, I would imagine. JENNA BUSH: I don't know. KING: A-ha! Are you open ...
Polls show voters drift to Clinton ahead of next primaries
Post Date: 2008-05-02 20:33:14 by richard9151
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I ALMOST hate saying I told you so....... almost. Understanding, of course, that the so-called pools are just an advance notice to the public about how the 'voting' machines will be programmed. Fri May 2, 7:38 AM ET WASHINGTON - Polls showed voters drifting toward Hillary Rodham Clinton before crucial Democratic primary votes next week, but the all-important party superdelegates — whose backing is now essential for the nomination — were falling increasingly in line behind Barack Obama. Despite the momentum building behind Clinton after her win in Pennsylvania, it still appeared mathematically impossible for her to overcome Obama's delegate lead for the party ...
McCain clarifies remark about oil, Iraq war
Post Date: 2008-05-02 20:28:53 by richard9151
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1 hour, 3 minutes ago PHOENIX - Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict. At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver. "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East," McCain said. The expected GOP nominee sought to clarify his comments later, after his campaign plane landed in ...
Rush Limbaugh: Obama's Double Life Exposed: His Racist, Hatemonger Pastor
Post Date: 2008-05-02 20:14:44 by robin
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Wait 'til you hear Obama's pastor. Now, we've mentioned this guy off and on during the course of the campaign. Of course as you know, ladies and gentlemen, this program likes to focus not on personalities, but rather issues and so forth. We like to cause a little mischief whenever we can, but it's gotten to the point now where we can sort of back off for... Well, not for long, but for a couple weeks maybe and be bystanders and watch this implosion. Somebody put it up on YouTube, the Christmas 2007 sermon at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The pastor: Jeremiah Wright. Now, this is the guy that married Barack and Michelle ...
O'Reilly back to smearing Wright (Obama), slings dishonest mud at Al Franken
Post Date: 2008-05-02 20:10:47 by robin
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O'Reilly back to smearing Wright (Obama), slings dishonest mud at Al Franken Reported by Chrish - May 2, 2008 In his Talking Points Memo Thursday night 5/1/08 Bill O'Reilly was back to his normal business of smearing Jeremiah Wright and, by extension, bringing down Barack Obama. As an added bonus he threw in some slanderous hate speech about Al Franken, who had the temerity to call him out on his "misstatements" that he (O'Reilly) won a Peabody Award. With video. O'Reilly ironically titled his article "Honesty in the Public Arena," or "Dare to be true." LOL! He immediately continued with labeling the Reverend "not an honest ...
Edwards against reparations; Obama suggest money for education instead - Kucinich is the only Dem candidate for reparations
Post Date: 2008-05-02 19:57:49 by robin
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Click for Video of snippet of Democratic debate where this question was asked and answered.
Clinton, McCain Push Gas Tax Break Economists Panned (removal of fed tax will help oil companies)
Post Date: 2008-05-02 19:26:05 by Indrid Cold
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May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton and John McCain are both pushing a ``gas-tax holiday'' to give consumers an 18.4- cent-a-gallon price break. Clinton says the plan will take excess profits from oil companies. McCain says it will help families buy school supplies. Economists have a different take: They say the oil companies may end up the biggest beneficiaries, while the aid to families wouldn't be enough to buy a $35 backpack. The trouble with the plan, they say, is that oil prices are rising because of low supplies, and companies will continue to charge the average $3.60 a gallon and just pocket the money that would have gone to federal taxes. ``That's $10 billion, ...
Renewing American Leadership
Post Date: 2008-05-02 18:10:34 by Pissed Off Janitor
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COMMON SECURITY FOR OUR COMMON HUMANITY At moments of great peril in the last century, American leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy managed both to protect the American people and to expand opportunity for the next generation. What is more, they ensured that America, by deed and example, led and lifted the world -- that we stood for and fought for the freedoms sought by billions of people beyond our borders. As Roosevelt built the most formidable military the world had ever seen, his Four Freedoms gave purpose to our struggle against fascism. Truman championed a bold new architecture to respond to the Soviet threat -- one that paired military strength ...
McCain lashes out at '100 Years' ads
Post Date: 2008-05-02 15:10:31 by richard9151
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52 minutes ago DENVER - Republican John McCain defended himself Friday against television ads that accuse him of advocating a 100-year war in Iraq. The ads tie McCain to President Bush and cite McCain's comments that there could be an American military presence in Iraq for 100 years. They are being run by the Democratic National Committee and the liberal group MoveOn.org. "One hundred years in Iraq? And you thought no one could be worse than George Bush," an announcer says in the most recent ad, run by MoveOn.org. McCain brought up the commercials at a town hall meeting Friday in Denver, saying they are lies. He doesn't deny saying "100 years" in connection ...
Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street
Post Date: 2008-05-02 15:06:23 by richard9151
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28 March, 2008 After months of virtual silence on the collapse of the speculative binge on Wall Street that has plunged the US economy into recession, all three major US presidential candidates delivered speeches this week on the housing and credit crises. Last week’s failure of Bear Stearns and the government-underwritten buyout of the investment bank by JPMorgan Chase, which evoked widespread comparisons to the financial breakdown that ushered in the Great Depression, was the precipitant factor that obliged Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and Republican John McCain to address the turmoil on Wall Street. Among the Democratic candidates, in particular, specific electoral ...
(Obama supporter) Dorothy Tillman: ‘Reparations can heal America' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-02 14:00:55 by Jethro Tull
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(Obama supporter) Dorothy Tillman: ‘Reparations can heal America' From:Chicago DefenderDate:October 11, 2002Author:AnonymousMore results for:Dorothy Tillman slave reparations When Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) takes her Reparations fight to New York Friday, she said these healthy discussions will help heal America's "ugly" racial past. Tillman will be one of several keynote speakers at the Union Theological Seminary's 2002 Bon Harper Lecture Series in Public Ethics. The theme of this year's conference is "Costly Grace: Race and Reparations, Theological and Ethical Readings of Communities." Tillman said she will be working with state lawmakers to pass ...
Obama's church was founded on radical creed; Rooted in 'black power'
Post Date: 2008-05-02 12:59:44 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's church was founded on radical creed; Rooted in 'black power'.(PAGE ONE) From:The Washington TimesDate:April 1, 2008More results for:Trinity United Church of Christ radical black theology Byline: S.A. Miller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The church where Sen. Barack Obama has worshipped for two decades publicly declares that its ministry is founded on a 1960s book that espouses "the destruction of the white enemy." Trinity United Church of Christ's Web site says its teachings are based on the black liberation theology of James H. Cone and his 1969 book "Black Theology and Black Power." "What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black ...
Clinton Advisor, Mickey Kantor Caught on Tape Calling Indiana Voters 'Worthless White N*ggers'
Post Date: 2008-05-02 12:17:58 by aristeides
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Clinton Advisor, Mickey Kantor Caught on Tape Calling Indiana Voters 'Worthless White N*ggers' Posted May 2, 2008 Subscribe to our news feed! Advisor to the Hillary Clinton '08 campaign and Clinton-Gore '92 chairman, Mickey Kantor was caught on tape hurling insults at Indiana voters. In the footage, which must be around 16 years old, Kantor assures his colleagues that a win or loss in the state of Indiana doesn't matter because "those people are shit." Kantor, flanked by strategist James Carville and advisor George Stephanopoulos, then lowers his voice and asks, "how would you like to be a worthless, white n*gger?" The video surfaces as ...
Another Ex-dem Chairman Declares Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-02 10:43:44 by christine
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FORMER DNC CHAIR, MASSACHUSETTS SUPERDELEGTATE ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA Chicago, IL – Today, Former Democratic National Committee Chair and Massachusetts supderdelegate Paul G. Kirk, Jr. endorsed Barack Obama. The endorsement brings the total number of superdelegates to endorse Barack Obama to 253. Senator Obama is 279 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination. His statement is below: “It is with a great sense of pride and confidence in his leadership that I am delighted to publicly endorse Senator Barack Obama and pledge my support to him as former National Democratic Chairman and as a superdelegate. Senator Obama is the one candidate who has and will continue to ...
DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash
Post Date: 2008-05-02 09:34:32 by Peppa
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In an election year marked by jaw-dropping Democratic fundraising, one key political player isn’t so flush: The Democratic National Committee. Despite record hauls by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DNC has raised less than half the amount taken in by the Republican National Committee. According to the latest Federal Election Commission reports filed through the end of March, the RNC had $31 million in cash on hand while the DNC had only $5.3 million. The RNC has raised $36.5 million this year while the DNC has raised $17.7 million. The story was equally grim in 2007, when the RNC raised a total of $83 million to the DNC’s $50 million. “The general election ...
Why hasn’t the 36 tapes McCain made for the enemy surfaced?
Post Date: 2008-05-01 23:13:46 by TwentyTwelve
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Why hasn’t the 36 tapes McCain made for the enemy surfaced? He made 32 propaganda tapes for the Communists during the war in VietNam. He claimed America was targeting schools and Hospitals and civilian neighborhoods. Why were these tapes classified and has anyone got copies? answers.yahoo.com/questio...qid=20080416123262AAhVYTU ">Click for Full Text!
Unqualified
Post Date: 2008-05-01 21:52:31 by richard9151
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01/05/08 "ICH " -- - Barack Obama has finally done it. Obama now claims that statements by Reverend Wright “rightly offend all Americans and should be denounced.” Well Reverend Wright’s comments don’t offend me. I would have found them refreshing had his answers and demeanor been less defensive during the question and answer period at the National Press Club. What I do find disappointing though is Obama’s inability to deal with the issues raised. He’s afraid that telling the truth will lose him the election. Maybe it would. But now we all can see, that for him, winning the election is more important than telling the truth. Winning the election is ...
May 1, 2008
Need a (Nuclear) Umbrella? Call Hillary
Post Date: 2008-05-01 19:57:22 by robin
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Need a (Nuclear) Umbrella? Call Hillary by Leon Hadar One of the central tenets of the US containment strategy during the Cold War was the belief in Moscow as well as in the capitals of America's allies across the Atlantic and the Pacific that in a crisis with the Communist powers, Americans would risk New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for London and Bonn, Tokyo and Seoul. Indeed, US strategy of "extended deterrence" – encapsulated in the metaphor of a "nuclear umbrella" – worked since the Soviet Union was presented with a credible threat of two-front war if they decided to launch nuclear attacks against America's allies whose security was ...
Suspicious Phone Messages Target Black Voters in North Carolina
Post Date: 2008-05-01 14:50:57 by ghostdogtxn
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Obama endorsed by an Indiana superdelegate [Clinton is put to shame for gastax gimmick, Goldilox is mentioned]
Post Date: 2008-05-01 13:09:55 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Obama endorsed by an Indiana superdelegate Joe Andrew, who formerly had endorsed Hillary Clinton, switches to Obama, saying the Illinois senator has a willingness to do 'the right thing.' Sparring over gasoline taxes continues. By Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 2, 2008 WASHINGTON--Democrat Barack Obama won a key endorsement today when Joe Andrew, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration and a superdelegate from Indiana, embraced the Illinois senator. Saying he believes Obama's rival Hillary Rodham Clinton will "go down in history as a great public servant," Andrew said that her proposal for a ...
Only 27% of voters have positive views of the Republicans
Post Date: 2008-05-01 12:22:22 by TwentyTwelve
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http://online.wsj.com/article/ Support for Republicans Falls, But Race for President Is Tight McCain About Even With Democrats New Lows for Bush By JACKIE CALMES May 1, 2008; Page A1 Only 27% of voters have positive views of the Republican Party, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the lowest level for either party in the survey's nearly two-decade history. Yet the party's probable presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, continues to run nearly even with Democratic rivals Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. His standing so far makes for a more competitive race for the White House than would be expected for Republicans, who face an electorate ...
Clinton Talks to Fox TV About Obama and Wright
Post Date: 2008-05-01 11:33:51 by robin
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," called the recent comments on race by Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., "offensive and outrageous" and said she was glad Obama had "finally" distanced himself from Wright. "Well, I take offense" at Wright's comments, she told the show's conservative host, Bill O'Reilly, who flew to South Bend, Ind., for the interview. "I think it's offensive and outrageous," she added. "And, you know, I'm going to express my opinion -- others can express theirs. . . . And people have to, you know, decide what they ...
Obama says he grew up less privileged than rivals [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-05-01 11:27:17 by robin
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a perception among some voters that he is "elitist." In an interview on NBC's "Today Show," Obama sought to explain a series of missteps that have dogged his candidacy over the past month and led some voters to conclude that he is out of touch. "The irony is, I think it is fair to say that both Michelle and I grew up in much less privileged circumstances than either of my two potential opponents," Obama said in an interview with his wife, Michelle, at his side. Obama's Kenyan father was ...
John McCain was born in Panama Canal Zone
Post Date: 2008-05-01 08:58:40 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Constitution says the Presidential requirements call for someone to be born in the United States.
Is this legal?
DNC chairman under Bill Clinton: Unite behind Obama [superD switches from Clinton to Obama]
Post Date: 2008-05-01 08:58:09 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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DNC chairman under Bill Clinton: Unite behind Obama By NEDRA PICKLER – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and unite behind the Illinois senator. Joe Andrew, who was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001, planned a news conference Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday's primary, perhaps the most important contest left in the White House race. He also has written a lengthy letter explaining his decision that he plans to send to other ...
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